8vo. Original red cloth stamped in black; dust jacket (very minor sunning to spine).

FIRST EDITION. Considered to be a classic of the "locked room mystery" genre, The Chinese Orange Mystery was first published in the June 1934 issue of Redbook, albeit in a highly abridged form. It was later adapted into the 1936 motion picture The Mandarin Mystery starring Eddie Quillan as Ellery Queen. A BRIGHT COPY.